I read it when I was 14, and managed not to go nuts =P I should pull it out though, its definitely one of those books you mentally compress due to length and lack of any sort of editing. I agree, I might actually go to see it just to debate someone into seeing a bit of reason.

Hey, I just found my Little Village cd, been dancing to Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Jim Keltner, Nick Lowe and the band. Rockin’ and learning how to make shit loads of baked beans. Seems so appropriate with those boys.

The Sound is full of 41 baby chicks in different stages of age, with different labels on their little beings; laying hen or Cornish-cross meat bird. I’m entering the serial killer time of year. Also. :]

Agreed.
And ‘knowing your enemy by reading his playbook’ aside, doctrinaire-thinking (if you don’t believe x, you aren’t y) is the famous conceit of the Right and their many mouthy assholes. I want no part of them, or their doctrine.

Randi Rhodes, as well. I listened to her finesse her Obama has done good things media bullshit. Another one down.
Don’t even fucking bother listening to opinions of MSM anymore. Got a talk show? Cool. Count me out.

When that came out her spin brigades shaved a few seconds off their record, apparently its not hypocrisy cuz she said so…. or something….. Shrug, people like that who rail against the “poor welfare queens” usually have no problem taken what is something they should “have anyways” even if they don’t need it.

I played in a concert at Palmer HS tonight. Spent the day reading about 120 pages of James Carroll’s Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World. I’ll be hosting the FDL book salon on his book Sunday afternoon. I’d read parts of his Constantine’s Sword a few years ago, but this book is quite interesting. more later on that, I guess.

The snow is melting and my plants in the greenhouse are loving the sun. How much radiation am I getting? The monitoring stations here don’t seem to have any significant information.

I will have to stop into that salon, I’ve been a fan of his since I stumbled onto some excerpts of Constantine’s Sword and have been meaning to read it ever since, I’m sure his newer work will be just as interesting.

I want the bad news right fucking now, but I want it presented to me by people who’s opinions I trust. News as social/event/current info because I don’t trust my ability to nuance the lede. I prefer to get my deeper info by scuba diving through the muddy waters. Like hunting mud creatures without a weapon, but with a bright sense of purpose!!

He sets a rather large stage for Jerusalem’s importance through the ages. He attempts to reconcile differences between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and amongst their internal sects. I’m not done with the book, but there are many acute observations. My yellow hiliter is running low on ink. This book may win Carroll more awards.

I’m at the point I was back in the beginning of my journey to awareness. Celebrating a fucking half century.
Question, listen, think. Cry BULLSHIT, you fucking sick fuckers. ! I’m just not willing to roll over and show the soft belly of surrender while the youngbloods need me to be strong. Knowledge isn’t power as much as it’s a resignation to walk the last line of a protest, between the police and the youngbloods.
Same as it always was.

Great tune!
It’s kind of weird to realize that I became a radical as a 7 year old kid, under my desk, during an Atom Bomb Duck and Cover drill. Head between my knees and wondering what was so twisted in people that they’d do these horrible things because they thought they were right about how people should live their lives.
*g*

I completely agree, seeing headlines on here 2.5 days before they’d show up in the MSM blew my mind. Also the level of detail that some people painstakingly put into their comments and posts was beyond impressive.

I suspect we will increase our rates of mutations, along with the increased mortality of those who bow out early from the stress. This stuff will happen to many more reactors over the next 25 years, for one reason or another.